Packing heat at the polls: Gun ownership, interest group endorsements, and voting behavior in gubernatorial elections

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 634-648

  Gimpel, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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